About the Author

British historian, author, and journalist Nicholas Foulkes is cofounder and editor in chief of Finch's Quarterly Review, luxury editor of British GQ, and contributing editor to Financial Times's How to Spend It and Vanity Fair. His other books for Assouline include High Society: The History of America's Upper Class (2008), Bals: Legendary Costume Balls of the Twentieth Century (2011), and Nardi (2012).